MusicStreamer

There are many apps which promise much and deliver little and are deleted within a few minutes in some cases. This brilliant app is not one of those. It simply delivers an excellent user interface and most importantly user experience and has allowed me to rediscover all of my CD collection after years of neglect. Buying this app has prompted me to take the final step in dispensing with physical CDs. I could go on but enough said. Get the app. Ps For those that might say why not use iTunes, the answer is that iTunes on my iPad drove me crazy with random reorganisation of tracks, missing tracks etc. I was not willing to invest time is a sub-standard app. Update, May 2024: I have been using this app for a number of years now, it has been ultra-reliable and stable as an app and a pleasure to use.

I struggled with this when I first downloaded the app last year. I mean seriously struggled the help files are not all that helpful and now I’ve upgraded my phone and have to go through it all again. I’ve sat here over an hour creating music sources but can’t connect to any of them. It’s just too complicated.

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Most of the things I want to listen to on my iPhone, especially in playlists, are tracks I recorded myself. They don't have cover art, and they have lonnnng file names that start the same. For example, "My friend's concert recorded at home on May 4th part 1.flac" and "My friend's concert recorded at home on May 4th part 2.flac". The detailed information about each track is important, and really can't be omitted. FileBrowser Pro, which I adore, handles long file names by rapidly scrolling them side to side so you can see the end of the file name. But it doesn't let you create play lists or have an equalizer. Clearly sound fidelity is important to me, or I wouldn't be recording the tracks in lossless FLAC. I was very excited when I read that Stratospherix also makes a music app. However, MusicStreamer has unmoving file names and no portrait mode, so there's no way to tell them apart on a small iPhone screen. There are also no indicators in the screen about how they're sorted (by date, filename, etc.) so you just can't tell them apart in the app's UI. My workaround was to create playlists in VLC (I refuse to use iTunes) and one in MusicStreamer, then alter the ones from VLC so they'll play in MusicStreamer. But you'd better make sure that all of the tracks are in the order you want, because if you need to change them in MusicStreamer, you're back to the problem of not being able to tell which one's which in the UI. It's madness. Another big downside... the user guides were clearly written by the marketing department, and contain very little step by step info, and only for functions that are intuitively obvious anyway. If you want to use it in a way that most people don't, you'll get to figure it out for yourself. Or you can go to the user community on X (formerly Twitter, no thanks, I left that platform when it started undergoing its radical transformation). I'll probably keep using it because FileBrowser Pro is absolutely perfect, except for the lack of playlists and real audio file handling. MusicStreamer integrates with it beautifully. Or, I may give up and go back to using VLC. The only reason I stopped using VLC in the first place is because in the iOS version, connecting to Windows vs. Linux network shares is complicated and a matter of trial and error. With almost 27,000 audio tracks, there's no way I'm downloading them all to my iPhone. Setting up FileBrowser Pro and MusicStreamer network share connections is super quick and easy. Better y

I'm using MusicStreamer to play music (flac) being streamed from a Raspberry pi using Samba. Connecting was simple and the app GUI is really nice.

In offline mode. First, you can’t track backwards to the previous track. Interface needs tweaking, because you can’t find some basic tools like deleting a track. And this is the worst offender, RANDOM really isn’t RANDOM! I have about 1,000 songs and I CONSTANTLY hear the same tracks, sometimes writhin minutes of each other.

I found this searching for an app that; 1) isn’t tied to iTunes, 2) doesn’t collect data, 3) is simple to connect to nas sources. This app checked all these boxes and I use it constantly. The only thing that I didn’t include in my search is the ability to see music sources listed in a folder view. This is important to me because I have a lot of teaching material that I use on a daily basis that have weekly meditation modules that are within sub folders. Without a folder view, I have no way of associating the weekly meditations with the root teaching’s folder. A folder view would be a huge time saver and make this app be perfect for me!

I’ve been using MusicStreamer for several years now, and I’m amazed how well it has met my needs. It’s configurable, but without introducing a learning curve. Plenty of times, I’ve thought “if I’d written this myself, I’d make it do X,” and it turns out the app does indeed do exactly that. Huge fan, no notes, 10/5 stars. Platform: iPhone, music on NFS share from TrueNAS

The app itself looks nice. I like the way the cover art looks and the other basic features. I like that it has the ability to connect to your NAS. After I connected to the NAS it immediately started listing the music files and cover art. A couple big problems though. 1) It organizes albums by disc folder instead of the album name tag. And then it sorts by disc folder name. That means it lists artists a-z disc1 folders and then artists a-z disc2 folders etc.. So multiple disc sets are not in order. Not sure why it ignores the album tags. 2) Not sure why it doesn’t use a dlna feature to connect to the server which would do all the album organizing for you. 3) Granted I have a collection of 2300+ albums but after it separated each disc folder into separate “albums” it shows that I now have 3033 “albums”. Lastly, I have over 53k music files and even without looking at album tags it still took hours to index the files. Foobar mobile is very simple app but it uses dlna and organizes the albums by album tag and not by each separate disc. If they could fix these issues it would be my new goto app.

Exactly what I was looking for! I have a mobile router with a USB drive in the car and this lets me scan the shared folder for all of my songs. A+ and thank you! 😊